Welcome back Doctor Who fans it is the time of the week that you all love since you get to read one of my reviews and oh yeah there was a new episode of Doctor Who so let's crack on with it shall we this is my review of "Thin Ice".
So then what is the plot of this episode i here you ask well there's lights underneath the Thames and it's up to The Doctor and Bill to find out what's going on. That's all i can say without really going into spoilers but i really did enjoy this episode since it not only gave us some great character scenes but it was also really well paced.
Now of course we have Peter , Pearl and Matt in this episode and now i can talk about Pearl i really like her she really is a different kind of companion and even tho i can see her character dividing fans for me she is great and she's great in this episode her scenes with Peter especially towards the middle of the episode were a treat to watch Peter as always does a fantastic job he has made The Doctor his own and it will be sad to him go. As for guest character we have Nicholas Burns , Asiatu Koroma and Peter Singh i have to admit the guest cast for this episode was a little on the weak side for me they weren't bad but they weren't helped by the fact that the episode was moving at a fast pace so you really couldn't connect to any of them.
From a visual standpoint this episode was stunning who ever shot this episode did a really great job and it couldn't have been easy to make the setting of this episode not only look like London but also look like it would fit in within the world of Doctor Who but tho i would say they overused the snow machine in a few scenes so i would toned that down a bit.
The CGI in this episode wasn't just TV quality for me it was movie quality it was that good i can't say which effects look the best because not only might they be considered a spoiler but also there all that good there's only one i can mention and that's the elephant that we saw at the end of last weeks episode i liked it then and i like it now so well done effects team you did a great job.
As mentioned Bill and The Doctor get alot of great character based scenes in the middle of this episode and i really liked them because they gave Bill a bit more of a character and they gave her a chance to really bond with The Doctor which until this point they havn't really done but another thing this episode did and it was something that i wasn't expecting was they touched on the racism that was rife in the century that this episode takes place and i have to give the writer credit for including that little detail.
Now then i won't mention the music not because it was bad but because i've already mentioned the music twice in a row now but i will mention that this episode is actually pretty creepy it's not going to make you run for the sofa but it will make the hair on the back of your neck stand to attention.
Overall this was a great episode from start to finish and i think most of the fan base will love it but tho for me there was issues that i have mentioned so for me this episode is an 8 out of 10
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